What are Emotions? Structure and Function of Emotions
| Autor: | Cezary Mordka |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
cognition
function positive media_common.quotation_subject Emotion classification brain nervous system negative B1-5802 emotion Affective science Cognition significance Structure and function Feeling Expression (architecture) Action (philosophy) Perception expression action feeling Philosophy (General) Psychology media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Studia Humana, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 29-44 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2299-0518 |
| Popis: | This paper attempts to coin a stipulative definition of “emotions” to determine their functions. In this sense, “emotion” is a complex phenomenon consisting of an accurate (reliable) determination of the state of affairs in relation to the state of the subject and specific “points of adaptation”. Apart from the cognitive aspect, this phenomenon also includes behavior, physiological changes and expressions (facial expression, voice, posture), feelings, and “execution” of emotions in the nervous system. Emotions fulfill informative, calibrating, identifying, existential, and motivating functions. Emotions capture the world as either positive or negative, important or unimportant, and are used to determine and assign weightings (to set up a kind of hierarchy). They emerge automatically (involuntarily), are difficult (or hardly possible) to control and are (to some extent) influenced by culture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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